a relay post & a couple of regimental aid posts on the firing line. our main dressing station is right in the village of R’helst. close to the church. The new camp is fearfully dirty Monday AUG 21. Cleaning up camp all day. & buildin an ablution table. C. section sent up the line. A section in charge of M.D.S. Go to Benediction in the evening. Tuesday AUG 22 Parade to Gas drill school. 73rd batt caught at Shrapnel corner & a whole platoon put out of action. 14 killed on the spot they were marching in column of route. Wed AUG 23. Fatigue all day. 3 letters from Belle. xxx Thursday AUG 24. 4th Can F. Amb (next field to us) strike camp Will Healey took a job as water cart orderly a week ago & is still on it. Friday AUG 25. A little fatigue & a lot of loafing Friday AUG 25. Writing to Belle in the evening when our section is called out & told to prepare for the line in ten minutes.
▸ Where was he?
▸ The war at this time
Shrapnel Corner
The roads behind Ypres are under constant German observation. Artillery has every crossroads and chokepoint registered. 'Shrapnel Corner' is one of several notorious spots where shells fall at irregular intervals, catching supply columns and troop movements. On the Somme, attacks on the fortified village of Guillemont continue, another in a series of costly attempts to capture a position that will not fall until September 3. The 73rd Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada) is a Montreal unit that arrived in France in August 1916.
